fn key

Last night, without any reason, my F4, F5, F6, and Esc keys stopped working. It solved itself, but shortly afterwords it did it again, and even after two reboots I cannot get them to work again. I use hotkeys all the time in Firefox and elsewhere, and these are probably my most-used keys...

My wireless connection that has been working fine to date has suddenly stoppe working. When i diagnose the connection I get the messag that the wireless capability is turned off yet the key on the front of my keyboard is switched on. I have also tried using the Fn + F2 combination that toggles...

Hi all, My dell laptop came with the Fn keys mapped to multimedia keys (like play/pause, screen brightness, wireless switch, etc). I want some of these to keep their original meaning, and some of them to be mapped to the normal F1-12 keys. So I went into the bios, changed the fn key behavior to...

I am using a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ650N notebook model. I upgraded the OS to Windows 7 Professional 32-bit recently and got the dreaded "fn key malfunctioning" issue, which I was able to quickly fix by reinstalling drivers from Sony's website in a certain order. Changing the display brightness with...

Hello, I thought, maybe you can help me with my problem here. Well, at first, I have ASUS K50AB and I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate. My problem is, that when I press the Fn+F7 (it turns off the monitor) and then press that combination again for the monitor to reapear, my taskbar is...

I am running Windows 7 on a dell Inspiron 1520 with a Nvidia card. The notebook's monitor is working perfectly. I've added a new Asus VH222 but Windows 7 doesn't appear to see it, and the monitor gives me an "Our of Range" error message when I attempt to transfer the signal with Fn+F8. Any ideas?

Hey again, I have got myself a Dell Vostro a840/860 laptop, like it very much! The laptop came with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, but of course I flushed the HDD and installed Windows 7 on it the first day. No issues, everything works OTB, except Bluetooth. Device manager sees it as a device, but it did...

Hi, I was hoping that someone might be able to help me - this is my first post on the forum. I just bought a Sony Vaio NW11Z/T laptop which has Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit installed and want to upgrade to Windows 7. I have read through most of the threads dealing with the many problems...

upgraded from vista to home premium on my fujitsu seimens amilo laptop now the f keys aren't working and 1 of them is to turn my wireless on? any ideas please:redface:

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FW140E with a broken LCD that I am attempting to put 7 onto. After the second restart, the restart that leads to you inputting your username, computer name, password, and date time, during the OS install the signal stops being broadcasted to the external monitor that I...

Since changing to windows 7 64 the wifi and performance butons at the top of the notebook (and the various fn keys). I have contacted rock and Asus for support, but was told there is no support for windows 7 because the system was designed for vista. has anyone got these keys working or know...

functions as in the Fn key on my laptop to adjust screen brightness/volume/other things. I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit on my Sony Vaio VGN CS-290. I originally was running Vista Home Premium 64bit without issues. I did a quick forum search but didn't find anything on it, so I...

Hi everybody ! First, sorry for my english but i come from belgium :) I have a W7 Pro & a HP 6730s. My W7 works fine but there's just one annoying problem, when i'm trying to adjust display brightness, (with FN + F7 ; FN + F8) nothing happens. I installed the last driver (Intel graphics media...

Hi all, hope you can help me out with this one: installed the 32bit version of Windows 7 RC (build 7100) since I did that my FN key functions are no longer working I downloaded the initial drivers again but that didn't help some of the drivers like SPIC wouldn't install ... Anybody of you...

Hi This isn't really an issue with the OS itself but I'm looking for some help in tweaking it a little on my laptop, if it's possible: I am using HDMI ouput on my laptop to connect it to my LCD. In order to get the sound to come from the tv speakers I have to go into the sound properties in...

Anyone know how to get all special keys (fn, media) working on a Sony Vaio in Windows 7? Obviously Sony has no drivers for these and no, the Vista versions do not work at all. Tried already. I'm using Windows 7 7100, 64bit. Sony Vaio VGN-AW190 (came with Vista 64bit originally) Thanks.

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-AW190 that originally came with Vista Home 64bit. I installed Windows 7 (clean install) 64bit. The problem is the special buttons are not working at all (eject, S1, S2, multimedia, AV Mode, onscreen display such as when you adjust volume or brightness), etc. I did install...

Hi all, I have a Sony Vaio notebook. For working Fn and S1 buttons I must have running Vaio Event Service. It works fine but when UAC is disabled. When it's enabled volume control with Fn not work. :( Can i do something to work this service with enabled UAC? Windows 7 build 7000. btw sorry...

Hello, everyone! The upgrade from Vista to 7 was a smooth one with one exception; my internal bluetooth adaptor is not working. I have a Dell XPS M1330, and I tried enabling it via BIOS, but it does not want to turn on... The BT Tray icon is not showing up, which is the way I normally turn it...